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Muse Image

Meta's agentic image model, which plans and checks its work before rendering and can ground images in search results. It is priced for volume at $0.01 per image on the Meta Model API.

MetaImage modelReleased July 2026Data checked October 18, 2026

Where people rank it

#4

Editing images (tied), 142,644 votes

#5

Creating images (tied), 42,262 votes

From blind votes on LMArena, where people pick the better of two anonymous answers. See the full tables on the AI leaderboard.

Strengths and weaknesses

  • Cheapest image model in this list at $0.01 per image
  • Top ten on LMArena text-to-image (9th of 82 entries)
  • Available through the Meta Model API, fal, Runway and OpenRouter
  • Clearly behind the top four image models on LMArena
  • Meta's model page gives no release date or detailed specs

Best for

  • Very cheap image generation at scale
  • Images grounded in current information

Every score we have

Each bar compares this model with the best result any model on this page has on the same test.

  • LMArena text to image1,274Arena score 1274.0 (95% CI 1268.9 to 1279.1); 42,262 votes; entry "muse-image"; position 9 of 82 on the full board
  • LMArena image editing1,402.6Arena score 1402.6 (95% CI 1398.4 to 1406.9); 142,644 votes; entry "muse-image"; position 8 of 59 on the full board
  • Artificial Analysis image arena1,127Elo 1127.0 (95% CI 1115.0 to 1139.0); 8,253 appearances; position 8 of 104 on the Artificial Analysis text-to-image arena
  • Price per 1,000 images (estimate)$10$10.00 per 1,000 images (Artificial Analysis estimate)

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